We are not getting out of the complicated loop of the educational crisis. After the announcement of the super-strike, which for the moment has only served to confirm the clash between the Government and the majority union, USTEC, two more pieces of news highlight the complicated panorama with education as a visible symptom of the country's crisis.

Between now and the end of the school year, during the next month and a half, there will be a total of seventeen days of strikes in the country's schools and institutes, a string of stoppages spread across different zones. The average will be five days per center: this will be the impact on students and their families. In other words, educational centers will cease to function normally for 5 out of the 35 remaining school days until the holidays, which is 14% of the total. In any sector, a stoppage of this magnitude would cause a major disruption. Of course, it will be for the educational world. A world, moreover, that has a very strong social impact.

It is not as simple as directly applying economic theory, but it must be taken into account. One of the main ways to ensure that housing ceases to be a luxury good, as it is today – especially in large cities, but also in medium-sized ones, which suffer from the price increase caused by the flight of demand seeking more affordable places to live – is to increase supply. And for this supply to adapt to demand. But this is easier said than done. Having become the main concern of the population, housing is actually a state issue, which all parties should assume.

Imposing compulsory military service, developing artificial intelligence-driven weapons without getting bogged down in "theatrical debates", the superiority of the United States over other countries, the belief that some cultures are superior to others and must be defended... These are some of the ideological foundations of the company Palantir that its co-founder, Alex Karp, details in the book The technological republic (in Spanish, published by Tenos). The military technology multinational that Karp created with Peter Thiel has been built on these foundations, which align with its name. Palantir has a political agenda and, while making money, works to expand and promote it.

While Trump's and his administration's insults towards the European Union do not subside, European leaders agreed yesterday in Cyprus to shift into fifth gear to achieve a common defense system. What happened this Friday is a demonstration of how much this process needs to be accelerated. In the morning, we woke up to the news that an email circulating within the Pentagon proposed the option of "kicking out" Spain from NATO, as a warning to other countries that refuse to help in the United States and Israel's war against Iran. It is an internal email, not an official statement, and experts warn that it has little traction and at most would mean removing Spain from command or leadership of missions, but the threat is there. Mid-morning, the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, dedicated part of his press conference to criticizing Europeans and pointing out that the conference of countries on the Strait of Hormuz, organized last week by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was "ridiculous" and "ostentatious." Furthermore, he reproached them again for not participating in the war with the veiled threat that the "protection" they had from the United States until now has ended.

Both on the right and on the left, since the eighties the figure of Jordi Pujol has caused consensus in Madrid: almost everyone resents him. The bewilderment and misunderstanding with Catalonia and its claims found their first representation in him, and this is still maintained in the collective imagination of the Spanish capital. Perhaps it has nothing to do with it – one must always leave room for doubt – but the summons that has now been made to the former president at the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid for Monday seems to be understood only from this sentiment.

Sant Jordi, the great civic and cultural festival of Catalonia, endures everything. Literary sugar excesses and critical or humorous boutades. However cutesy we make it, however much of a profile some people adopt, we all end up celebrating the diada. It's unbeatable. Who gives up choosing a book? Who doesn't want to receive or give a rose? It's so hard to stay on the sidelines... It's a marvel that somehow works on its own, by the force of popular adherence that overcomes all mental and ideological borders, that is part of what we call shared identity. Because the magic formula doesn't fail: book and rose. So simple and so brilliant. As they say now in gastronomy, they pair well: reading and love-nature.

The PP will bring to a vote this Wednesday in Congress a text in which it asks to "prioritize access to aid, subsidies and public benefits, as well as access to protected housing and social rent, for people who prove a real, lasting and verifiable connection to the territory, inspired by the principle of national priority". In this way, the popular party affirms, they transfer to the lower house "the soul" of the agreement with Vox in Extremadura. Undoubtedly, this is a relevant move, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo decides to adopt a principle that has historically been linked to the far-right, and especially to French lepenism, despite the reservations expressed by prominent figures in his party such as Isabel Díaz Ayuso or Juanma Moreno Bonilla.

Operation Kitchen was a conspiracy mounted from within the State itself with the PP government to prevent the Bárcenas case and the scandal over the illegal financing of the Popular Party from splashing its main leaders, especially Mariano Rajoy. And it must be said that after hearing Bárcenas himself in court this Monday, it seems that the operation achieved its main objective, which was to save Rajoy. The former PP treasurer explained that he recorded a conversation with him in which he handed over a certain amount of money and a paper with the "B" accounts. But this audio has never seen the light of day. Why? Well, because the agents of the so-called "patriotic police" were responsible for erasing any trace of it.

If there are no last-minute changes, the negotiators of the United States and Iran will meet again in Islamabad to resume peace talks, before the ceasefire expires on Tuesday night to Wednesday. The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, but the ten-day truce has given some breathing room to all parties, and also to the markets. Despite the rhetoric and continued threats from Donald Trump and his team to further destroy Iran, the fact is that there is some consensus among analysts that it is in the best interest of all parties, including the United States, to stop a conflict that is causing an economic crisis of global proportions.

The President of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, has culminated this weekend in Barcelona the operation that began with his opposition to the Israeli occupation of Gaza and that today has made him a reference for the global left and, by opposition, the nemesis of Donald Trump. It must be admitted that Sánchez has known how to play his cards well internationally (perhaps better than domestically), and the success of this Saturday's summit of progressive leaders is the culmination of a strategy planned and executed from Moncloa to the millimeter.

On April 28th last year, almost a year ago, traffic lights, televisions, internet... stopped working, and many rediscovered radio transistors and candles. An unusual and unprecedented event. A country in darkness in the 21st century. It gives the impression that, in many cases, almost twelve months after such an unprecedented event, the political battle and the rush to accuse each other have taken precedence over the interest in clarifying what circumstances caused the great blackout.

In March 2007, 19 years ago, hundreds of representatives of the so-called Catalan civil society filled the Iese to the brim in an event that became a true claim for the need to bring the management of a key infrastructure such as Barcelona airport closer to the territory. Almost two decades have passed since then and the issue, which has been resurfacing over the years, is back on the table, now with a public-private centralized operator, Aena. Issues that have been raised for a long time have not yet been resolved, such as the accounts of each of the airports in the network – they are presented as a whole, without detailing the parts that make them up or what some gain and others lose, or which ones subsidize the others, etc.

Although the People's Party insists actively and passively that Vox is a party like any other to justify their pacts with them, reality shows every day that this is not the case. The incident staged by deputy José María Sánchez in the Congress of Deputies, in which he climbed the podium to shout at the then acting president of the chamber, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, at a distance of a few centimeters, had not been seen in the chamber throughout the democratic period. And perhaps the closest thing to it was on February 23, as recalled by the socialist Patxi López.

In Spain, the process of obtaining residency and work permits is so cumbersome and complicated that carrying out extraordinary regularization processes has already become a custom. The goal is to end administrative bottlenecks and pockets of irregular immigration that, in turn, fuel the black economy and the perpetuation of situations of social vulnerability. These regularizations have been carried out by socialist and popular governments. There were them in 1986, 1991, and 1996 under Felipe González, in 2000 and 2001 under José María Aznar, and in 2005 and 2006 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The last one, therefore, was twenty years ago, before the migratory boom after the global recession of 2008-2012.

Where is the new Hungary of the conservative democrat Péter Magyar heading? Towards a return to Europeanism (against Putin, against Trump, and against the far-right), towards the reconstruction of the rule of law (against authoritarian and illiberal policies), and towards respect for plurality and minorities (against hate speech targeting groups like the LGTBI+ or against the rejection of identity diversity represented by immigration).

Amidst a fragile ceasefire, with Israel violating the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, the face-to-face negotiations in Islamabad, mediated by Pakistan, between the delegations of the United States and Iran have not yielded any concrete results. It was really very difficult.

A figurehead and ally of Putin and Trump in Europe, and a key figure of the anti-European and anti-immigration continental far-right, Viktor Orbán is much more than a nuisance to the European Union: he is the internal enemy who has called into question the EU's foundational values and short-circuited its system of unanimous governance. His eventual defeat at the polls this Sunday would therefore mean a respite and an injection of pro-European confidence, both to make Russia's support for Ukraine clear, to show the US president the limits of his influence on the Old Continent, and, thirdly, to deflate the far-right's rise.

Will we have Generalitat budgets at the beginning of summer? What, how, and at what speed are the PSC and ERC negotiating to approve them? We should have them. In fact, it is very relevant to have them. Normalizing institutional policy without approved accounts is an anomaly in every rule: resources are lost, processes are slowed down, initiatives and projects are stalled, sectors of civil society –economic, social, and cultural– that depend on public commitment, which are the vast majority, are harmed. Too many things suffer. The worst thing is to settle into a dynamic of budgetary frustration.

The real problem with what has happened in recent times in the Near East and Middle East is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his permanent ultranationalist and militaristic forward flight to stay in power and thus evade the judicial cases that plague him. After the genocide perpetrated in Gaza in response to Hamas's terrorist attack, Israel has pushed the United States of Trump into a war against the ayatollahs' Iran and has taken advantage of the military escalation to unashamedly execute its expansionist ambitions in the region. The objective: to gain security space by destroying its historical enemies.